Just in case you haven’t seen the sneak post: elk-herd 3.0 will support what the OP was after:
- Moving patterns between projects, bringing any required sample pool and sound pool entries with them, and correctly renumbering sound and plocks in the patterns.
- Archiving whole projects to/from files. (Though this is exactly as if you had done a SysEx dump save/restore… but integrated with a UI!)
@PlumWrinkles: Observant! crunch is the name I use for all my music software - elk-herd is the Elektron device manager.